Roller-bearing with angular rolls.



- ROLLER BEARING WITH ANGULAR ROLLS.

APPLICATION rum SEPT.22, 1909. 956,587. Patented May 3,1910.

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CHARLES'S. LocKwoon, or NEWARK, NEW J SEY. ASSIGNOR '10 HYATT ROLLER BEARING coMPANY, or HARRISON, NEW JERSEY, A coRPoRA'rIoN on NEW JERSEY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

, ROLLER-BEARING WITH ANGULAR ROLLS.

Patented May ,1910.

' 1 Application filed September 22, 1909. Serial No. 518,927. g

To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. LOCK- WOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing-at 289 Market street, Newark, county of .Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented -certain new and useful Improvements in Roller-Bearings with Angular R0lls, fully described. and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming apart of the same. v

This invention relates to a roller bearing in which a conical hub is used to support a series of conical antifriction rolls which are embraced externally by a tapering casing and, when subjected toend thrust, transmit the same to the conical surface of the hub through the bodies of the rolls. Such end thrust when applied to the casing tends to slide the rolls endwiseupon the conical surface of the hub, and such end movement can be resisted and the end thrust fully supported, by restraining the rolls from any expansive movement.

The object of the present invention is to furnish a means of very cheap and simple character for resisting any expansion of the rolls and thus preventing end movement.

The means employed consists of a central stud upon the larger end of each of the rolls and a clamp-ring having an interior ridge fitted to the exterior of such studs, and rotated freely with the rolls in their movement around the hub. The stud is preferably joined to the end of the roll with a flaring shoulder, which, with the cylindrical surface-of the stud, forms a groove or neck and when the latter is fitted upon the exterior of the rolls they are held in contact with the clamp-ring and the clamp-ring prevents any expansive or end movement of the rolls.

The conical hub ispreferably furnished at its smaller end with a flaring collar at the point where the lower ends -of the rolls revolve, and the lower ends of the rolls are,

in such case, formedwith beveled ends to roll upon the said collar, the latter thus preventing endwise movement of the rolls in end movement in the opposite direction, and

the rolls are thus held continuously in 'a circular path about t terial' rubbing friction.

one direction, while the clamp-ring prevents he hub without any ma The invention will be understood by ref- 5 erence to the annexed drawingfin which F igure 1 1s a CQIllJIitL'CIOSS-SQCHOII of: a

double thrust-bearing provided with the imthe cage used in said bearing; Fig. 5 is an end view and Fig. 6 an edge view of the clamp-ring. 'Fig. 7 is an elevation of the hub, and Fig. 8' an elevation of one of the rolls. Fig. 9 1s a cross-section of a single thrust-bearing with means'for adjusting the hub and the clamp-ring longitudinally withi in the casing; Fig. 10 is an elevation of the adjusting-ring for the hub Fig. 11' is an elevation of the adjusting-ring for the clamp-ring, and Fig. 12 isan elevation of the hub. Fig. 13 is a cross section of,the

- cage shown in Fig. 9, and Fig. 14 shows a blank for the retainer used upon such cage. Taking the simplest construction, which is shown in Fig. 3, the hub is shown w1th a single conical seat a and an extension at the smaller end having a cylindrical seat I) and a flaring collar .0. The rolls are formed with a conical body d, a beveled smaller end 0 fitted to the flaring collar 0, and at the larger end with a cylindrical studf con,- nected to the body of the roll by a tia shoulder g, upon each roll. The casing H which surring j I which forms a so-called-neck rounds the rolls is provided with a taper-.

ing seat It fitted to embrace the bodies of the rolls, an annular recess {at the larger end of such seat extended to the end of the easing, and the clamp-ring j is fitted to revolve 111 such recess and has an interior annular ridge is which is beveled to fit the stud f and the flaring collar 9, which form the neck of each roll. .The angular 'position'of each roll upon the conical hubtips the cylindrical.

surface of the stud f to an angle with the axis of the bearing, and the studs thus serve to retain'the clamp-ring j the necks of' the rolls.

When the bearingroll is in operation, the clamp-ring is carried in place: upon around by the rolls having contact only with the necks and having only a rolling friction which ofiers no appreciable resistance'to the movement of the rolls. As the neck upon each roll serves to hold the ring in place, so in like manner the ring holds the rolls upon the conical hub, so that they cannot ,be withdrawn from their working position without directing the smaller end of the roll outwardlyfrom the hub to clear the flaring collar 0, as indicated by the dotted roll d in Fig. 6. This is readily effected when the casing is removed. A cage having bars Z fitted to the opposite sides of the rolls at their diametral line, is shown in Fig. t and indicated by dotted lines in the other figures. Such cage may be formed with lugs m curved upwardly from the bars over the rolls, as shown in Fig. 2, to retain them in place, or as the skeleton cage shown in Fig. 4, which permits the smaller ends of the rolls to be drawn outwardly from the hub when placing them in their working position, or removing them therefrom.

A modified form of the cage is shown in Figs. 13 and 1 1, where a supplemental ring Z is secured upon the outer side of a skele' ton cage and formed with fingers m which extend between the rolls outside their diamerral line, and thus preventthem from falling out of the cage when the casing is removed, as the space between these fingers is smaller than the diameter of the rolls. This keeper is formed from the star-shaped blank shown in Fig. 14, the fingers m being bent at a suitable angle from the plane of the ring Z before the ring is attached to the cage, or after the rolls are set in place.

.The bearing shown in Fig. 3 is adapted to resist end thrust or pressure upon the casing in one direction, but not in the opposite direction; and two of the constructions can therefore be combined, as shown in Fig. 1, to resist end thrust in both directions.

In Fig. 1, the hub is shown with two opposed conical seats a and a, and the casing H with opposed conical seats h and h, the latter being formed upon a detachable ring H which is screwed into the outer end of the recess a so as to adjust the seats 72, and it upon the surface of the rolls.

In Fig. 9, a ring p is screwed into the thread within the casing and such ring and the clamp-ring 7' are provided upon their opposed faces with annular ball-seats, and balls 9 are inserted therein. A longitudinal notch r is cut in the open threaded end of the casing, and a screw 8 inserted through the notch into any one of a series of holes t in the adjusting-ring p, to hold it in position-when adjusted. The end of the hub a is formed with an annular ball-seat u, and

an adjusting-ring o is screwed into the open end of the casing and provided w th a ballseat opposed to the ball-seat u, and balls 10' are fitted to the opposed seats. The ring 0) when adjusted sets the hub so as to hold the rolls in the proper relation to the tapering seat It, and is held in position when adjusted 1 by a screw 8 operating with a series of holes 25 upon the ring p. The adjusting rings 72 and i) provide means of compensating for wear of the parts, and forv their primary adjustment toward one another so as to operate in the most perfect manner without lost motion. i

In using such bearings, the casing is secured in any suitable socket upon the frame of a machine, and a shaft or axle is secured in the bore 0 of the hub, and the construction then resists end thrust and prevents end movement of the shaft or casing in one or both directions.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention what is claimed herein is:

1. In a roller bearing, the combination,-

with a hubhaving a conical seat and a collar at the smaller end of such seat, of a series of conical rolls fitted to the conical; seat and having their ends fitted to the said collar, each roll having a neck at the larger end, a cage with pockets fitted to the sides of the several rolls, a casing having tapering seat to embrace the said rolls and an annular recess at the larger end of such seat, and a clam -ring fitted to turn in such recess and fitte rolls and operating to confine the rolls in contact with the collar. 1

2. In a roller bearing, the combination,

to the necks of the said in the ring o the same as the screw 5 with a hub having a conlcal seat, of a series of conical rolls fitted thereto and having each a central stud upon its larger end inclined to the axis of'the bearing, a clampring arranged to embrace all of the studs to resist expansion of the rolls upon their seat, a casing having a tapering seat to embrace the said rolls and anannular recess at the larger end of such seat to inclose the clampring, and an adjusting-ring secured adjustably in the casing with a series of balls fitted to seats, upon the clamp-ring and upon the adjusting-ring.

3. In a roller bearing, the combination, with a hub having a conical seat and an annular ball-seat at the larger end of such conical seat, of a series of conical rolls fitted to the conical seat, each roll having a neck at the larger end, a casing having a taperseat to embrace the said rolls and an annular recess at the larger end of such seat, a clamp-ring fitted to turn in such recess and fitted to the necks of the rolls, and an adjusting-ringheld adjustably in the said recess and having an annular ball-seat opposed to the ball-seat upon the hub with a series of balls fitted to the opposed seats as and for thepurpose set forth.

. 4. In a roller bearing, the combination,- with a hub having a conlcal seat and an annular ball-seat at the larger end of the hub, of a series of conical rolls fitted thereto and having each a central stud upon its larger end inclined to the axis of the bearing, a

clamp-ring fitted toall of the said studs,

a casing having a tapering seatembracing the series of rolls and an annular recess at the larger end of such seat extending beyond the larger end of the hub and threaded internally, the adjustin -ring p screwed within the casing, a series'of alls fitted to ball-seats in the clamp-ring andthesaid adjustingring, the 'adjustingrring '0 screwed within 15 the casing and having an annular ball-seat opposed to the ball-seat upon the hub; balls w fitted to-the two seats and means for securing the rings 12 and 42 within the casing when adjusted. I 7 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES s. LOCKWOODQ Witnesses: v I

L. LEE,

THOMAS S. CRANE. 

